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- March 7, 2019
- Taylor Dayne
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Back in the 1980s I was enamoured with a singer named Taylor Dayne.
Leslie Wunderman aka Taylor Dayne
March 7, 1962
American chanteuse, Lyricist, actress
Her look went from vulnerable and shy to big haired riff belting dynamo and the change up was as interesting as the songs she sang.
The first time I heard her I thought I was listening to the power of a sister before the microphone only to learn that she was one of those Tom Jones or Elviseque voices with presence, projection, and a sultry, soulful inflection.
I tell you she was just too much for me to bear in all my young impetuous redneck never a chance in hell self.
She has sold 75 million records and is a multiple grammy nominee. Oh, that I were worthy ...
Today is her birthday. Happy Birthday to you !
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- March 6, 2019
- Today is the Day of the Dude 2019
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There is a philosophic vantage known as "dudeism" whereby "The Dude" from a movie called The Big Lebowski allegedly imparts spiritual guidance for the masses.
Never having seen "The Big Lebowski" I may attest that this is not a particular motivation in my religion, lifestyle, philosophy, nor anything else.
Also, I do not find the Chinese philosophy of Lao-tzu advocating humility and religious piety particularly motivating as well; so that Taoist bent escapes me right along with everything else about the movie.
Perhaps I've simply missed more than I should have during my activities of daily living ... but about the only 'dude' thing in my life are Dude Wipes.
I buy these little gems to carry around with me for that totally fresh feeling thoughtout the day and they don't offer anything in the way of philosophical advantage nor religious inclination ...
All they provide ia a significantly less heinous anus at those times they are invoked.
To each their own, I suppose.
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- March 5, 2019
- Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette is almost the antithesis of me ... I contradict his theology (actually lack thereof) and his politics — though to a decidedly lesser extent.
However, be all of this as it may I will typically sit down and hear him out because I think he presents his cases well and I am always open to those dissenting opinions among others because I need the balance of hearing out those even if they differ in opinion from my own.
Penn Fraser Jillette practices magic with his compadre Raymond Joseph Teller aka "Teller" as the team Penn & Teller and as such I have enjoyed much of what they have presented in various venues I have attended.
Mr Jillette is a best selling author of eight tomes and has hit the stage and television with all manner of shows as well as Vegas and other high end venues.
He is for all intents and purposes a practicing atheist and skeptic extraordinaire. He believes in libertarianism, free market capitalism, and is decidedly pro first amendment.
Although much of who he presents himself as being is fairly contrary to that which is me ... there remains plenty of congruence but like I've said before many times, if we all were the same the world would be quite the boring place.
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- March 4, 2019
- National Grammar Day 2019
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I used to be quite the wordsmith. I used to take great pleasure in writing and forming various plays on words in my daily life.
That entirety of Grammar as a system of language structure which takes into consideration arrangement and word forms as well as pronunciation and meaning was my playground for much of my younger life.
Alas, these days are gone and I don't really enjoy any aspect of it all anymore.
Today is National Grammar Day in the United States.
It was established by one Martha Brockenbrough, who authored "Things That Make Us [Sic]" (2008) and founded the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar.
Talk about no life.
Designated in 2008, the National Grammar Day is one of those observances I notice few people realize exists, much less observe.
Looks like I'm not the only agraphic or graphicaphobic out there.
I personally feel that things got bad in the 1980s when students began using chat room abbreviations in their writing assignments as if that were remotely appropriate.
Just like the teaching assistants at college who were in charge of English classes yet could not write a lick.
Our generation of burger flippers has done us in from a standpoint of good literary practices.
Just goes to show you that quite a few too many have been doing little more than laying around and breeding during their ignorant existence.
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- March 3, 2019
- World Hearing Day
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Though it's World Hearing Day and I ABSOLUTELY despise the United Nations as that meddlesome arm of the New World Order and would just as soon see every last one of them kicked out of New York by the largest most powerful conservative mule I can find ...
I suppose the World Health Organization can likewise suffer their fate because they are simply more globalization in a world that doesn't need any.
Though I digress every time something leads me back to that stupidity which is the UN and all their little claws stuck in the world, I just want to point out that I've had hearing problems my entire life and they never did anything to help me or my situation at any stage of the game.
My suffering arises from a residual eustachian tube dysfunction.
The tube allows the inner ear to communicate with the throat for purposes of pressure equalization and fluid drainage and this little ditch has been giving me a fit as my recent spate of whatever respiratory ailment dissipates. It's been quite the butt kicker too, I must say.
Anyway it's stopped hurting but the pressure is decidedly unequal on the left side though I notice improvement in the last few hours.
So the bottom line is, the UN would have all my earnings to take care of this problem had it ocurred in some third world country but since it's my problem I am left to my own devices.
And finally, in parting and further digression, I'd like to point out that the UN sucks. The WHO sucks. The EU sucks. The Bilderberg Group sucks. The Rockefella's all SUCK as do each and every one of the Rothschilds and all the other maggots in Belgium as well as the low life anus immoral attendees of Bohemian Grove in California.
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- March 2, 2019
- Texas Independence Day
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My beloved late maternal grandmother, Sallie T. Johnstone was from Texas. Her many reminiscences left me with a feeling of love for and solidarity with Texas, and indeed I am a Texan by lineage if nothing else.
It's Texas Independence Day, which celebrates adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836.
Signed by 59 delegates, the document makes known that settlers in Mexican Texas are officially declared as independent from Mexico creating the Republic of Texas.
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- March 1, 2019
- opprobrium
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In the past, I have undergone harsh criticism and censure. However, given the failure of the stupid educators to even bother to check the facts involved, it didn't last.
The public disgrace arising from my shameful conduct not withstanding, all was not as it was claimed to be by those I offended.
Such it is with the entirety of public education anyway. It is a realm of innuendo where the accusations are many and robust while the facts are few and frail.
When in the course of one's life those slings and arrows come from the clique in charge just remember ...
There are those of us still standing accused without any manner of substantiated proof ...
while those accusers flinging hearsay like their monkey butt poo are no longer with us to continue the fray.
Nothing like a customized reality to make your point when sullying the reputation of another.
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- February 28, 2019
- February 28
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Today is the last day of the shortest month of the year.
Even in leap years when it gains an additional day it remains the shortest day of the year.
So much for those observance months which coincide with it's brief run once today is over.
Now, I'm not too big on commemorations. I'm not into the trinkets and kitsch associated therewith.
So Valentines Day and the rest of it all just have to mosey on down the road and wish they had been given a month more significant in the big scheme of things.
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- February 24, 2019
- Internet Infrastructure Attack Warning
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As I have been saying for quite a while now we are facing a dilemma of technology breaches secondary to individuals like the brigand Obama who discarded too much of our manufacturing ...
Opting to trust the consumer grade products and much of the professional networking componentry to the likes of China where we have become ripe for the plucking with the prey using the enemy's provisioning of essential infrastructure devices.
Fools who would vote for the brigand Obama and his NWO ilk are directly responsible for this vulnerability and it's not surprising given the vast idiocy displayed by his constituents otherwise.
So, if we're not hit by some massive EMP killing all services for months on end we are likely going to be mined individually by those espionage elements of the chinese military.
So ... I have been compelled to use double barrier firewalls. A hardware outer layer coupled with a software edge protector and this works for me ...
ALL because I don't trust the chinese to omit any backdoors or other points of exploitation. They still cannot penetrate the inner sanctum ... to the best of my knowledge and I am a log checker extraordinare !
I fear for the others who are not sophisticated enough to both read between the lines and prepare provisioning of their own design.
ICANN is promoting vigorous warnings about the dangers yet you see little to nothing in the main stream media which has reduced itself to fake news, political backbiting, and other aspects of petty yellow journalism.
Key parts of the internet infrastructure face large-scale attacks that threaten the global system of web traffic, the internet's address keeper warned Friday.
Sooner or later our stupid liberal mentality is going to do us in on the world stage where exploits of your "warm and fuzzy" ignorance of the real world is going to be the downfall of all of us.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) declared after an emergency meeting "an ongoing and significant risk" to key parts of the infrastructure that affects the domains on which websites reside.
"They are going after the internet infrastructure itself," ICANN chief technology officer David Conrad told AFP.
"There have been targeted attacks in the past, but nothing like this."
The attacks date back as far as 2017 but have sparked growing concerns from security researchers in recent weeks, which prompted the special meeting of ICANN.
The malicious activity targets the Domain Name System or DNS which routes traffic to intended online destinations.
ICANN specialists and others say these attacks have a potential to snoop on data along the way, sneakily send the traffic elsewhere or enable the attackers to impersonate or "spoof" critical websites.
"There isn't a single tool to address this," Conrad said, as ICANN called for an overall hardening of web defenses.
US authorities issued a similar warning last month about the DNS attacks.
Glenn CHAPMAN
Warning issued over attacks on internet infrastructure
AFP News22 February 2019
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/warning-issued-over-attacks-internet-infrastructure-231420815.html
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- February 20, 2019
- The Birth of the dreaded SJW Movement
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Social Justice Warriors ... those morons with an eternal axe to grind taking swipes at all else just because they think they hold the moral highground ... when they don't.
Lashing out, striking out, attack monkeys in pursuit of anything they consider offensive in their black garb and infantile shrieking. They have evolved into entities who are simply offended by everything all the time.
This was all part and parcel of the stupid United Nations (whom else) indoctrinating the children via the state run school systems (who else would readily become a co conspirator to anything so entirely stupid) in exaggerated recognition of the need to promote efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and unemployment.
Social justice for people was hammered into their tiny brains so vigorously with the accompanying "Teaching Social Justice Day" on sustainability of all things which simply set up their being led like sheeples to the slaughter for Agenda 21 which now appears to be Agenda 30 and all the stupid UN crap that goes with the "would be" New World Order which is currently being fought tooth and nail by anyone who has half a brain.
Thank you, but I decline to be subserviant to the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the EU heirarchy in Brussels, or anything else so anti nationalism out to heard us into the night to be killed for the benefit of the so-called elite ... who in reality don't exist ... and all of this has been fortold in the Bible.
So the Bilderberg group keeps right on making preparations for killing most of us so they may assume the entirety of the world for themselves and their cronies and servant nations.
Kindly keep your exaggerated socially progressive views, like your version of feminism, your spin on civil rights, and multiculturalism, as well as that ridiculous notion of identity politics to your stupid self and stay as far away from me as you can at your own peril.
I decline to tolerate you and your ilk at all and I can be pretty doggone rude and formidable at the drop of a hat when confronted or necessary.
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- February 18, 2019
- Andy Devine
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My childhood was punctuated by the performances of Andy Devine.
Andrew Vabre Devine was a character actor who frequented those programs which piqued my childhood interests ...
Like Roy Rogers, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Batman, The Twilight Zone; along with more movie titles than I can name.
Many of those were far beyond my cultural comprehension at that early time in my cultural evolution.
Yes, his was a long diverse career in which he portrayed many roles and I was there to see many of those throughout that period when I didn't know much of anything else.
He was said to have "two voices" — one for the screen the other for personal interactions. I only heard one of those myself.
He was born October 7, 1905 and passed February 18, 1977 while I was attached to the Naval Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois.
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- February 17, 2019
- So Much for Kinder and Gentler
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I had been testing out a less iron fisted firewall policy ...
For the week or so it lasted.
It seems that the scum which exists along side us all in the internet is simply without any redeeming virtue at all and therefore cannot be given quarter from any manner of cutthroat security policies which may be implemented for the safety of the domain.
Therefore, I have resumed the original scorch the earth policy on the mail server that is still in place on the web server.
Alas, poor exploiter I knew him well.
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- February 16, 2019
- The Unsophisticated Purveyor of Exploits
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The duties involved with the operation of public facing web and mail servers leaves me somewhat wanting. Those duties typically wax moronic with the common attack postures by those who would exploit my resources for their own use.
First of all, there is failure to learn from past mistakes. There are several individuals hitting my mail server in particular using the same failed approaches over time. This typically results in me escalating the limitation of access to the point that all they can do is 'hit it and quit it' because all else is blocked by those various subsystems at my disposal.
Logs are also somewhat amusing in these matters because I have them configured to tell the tale, however ridiculous it may be so I come to know who is the real threat and who is the poser trying to appear as if they have a clue.
By this point in time I have seen it all, done it all, and I'm to the point where cloning disk images is a weekly thing and conducting disaster recovery operations part and parcel of my weekend routine for quite a while now.
I also would like to point out that my most excellent tools are open source and free for anyone to use.
So in the gloaming hidden world of spammers out to deliver payloads and exploits hitting each rampart like some guided missile missing it's mark I try to remember: there by the grace of God go I. Were I the noob so many of these people appear I would want to hide my identity to a string of IP addresses too.
Stupid is as stupid does and alot of these people missed the boat somewhere.
Ports and protocols matter as do those blacklists and other filtration devices keeping the hounds at bay.
If you have business with me those servers are there for you. Otherwise, kindly just go bother someone else.
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- February 15, 2019
- Off the grid behaviors
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I practice off the grid behaviors in my activities of daily living. Now this being said, I need to make clear those facts such as employment and obligations still transpire because I have this persistent need to eat and live indoors.
However, I don't use social media accounts owned by others and indeed, the only social site is my own and it is there for my predilections and to share those with others who care to indulge.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and all others would not have a chance with me. I do a little commentary on various political sites in an effort to make it known that everyone in the United States is not a socialist democrat or idiot democrat either. These notions that democrats and progressives sometime submit for approval by the masses are what have made them the laughing stock of the internet.
I really don't understand how they can view themselves seriously ... particularly those most vocal in the mix. That continuous pursuit of stupidity never ceases to amaze me and how the approval of socialism by the millenials can be as high as it is speaks volumes for the diminished intelligensia in our midst.
Then there are the illegals who think they're going to scoff at our laws just because the democrats need a few million more voters who want to be on the dole because it will cement their numbers in electorial proceedings.
I keep wondering from whose behind this magic eternal fountain of cash is going to start spewing like Old Faithful. Can it be that they fail to realize that with everyone on the dole nobody will pay taxes sufficient to maintain them in their pursuit of perpetual motion?
The logic simply isn't there and the critical thinking is lacking to the point that something will give LONG before any pie in the sky reality can coalesce.
This is what happens when a generation of burger flippers reproduces.
Their defunct progeny become the problem of everyone else.
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